First of all, I picked a piece of watercolor paper and a couple of Distress inks: Scattered Straw and Peacock Feathers. I smushed them down on my craft sheet and I added some water on top. Then I pressed my panel and moved it around. I made it dry and repeated the process until I was satisfied.

At this point I grabbed my Jo's Bubbles Clarity Stencil and I used it to create my own Bokeh Background. You can create your own masking paper by die cutting a bunch of circles of different sizes, but this stencil was just perfect. I took my white pigment ink pad and I blend it onto the panel, moving the stencil and choosing the best circle time after time.